Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States skis during an inspection of the giant slalom course at the Yongpyong Alpine Center at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018.

At every step of her development en route to becoming the world’s dominant female alpine racer, Mikaela Shiffrin has come through when the pressure is the toughest and the spotlight is brightest. Will she do it again in the Olympic slalom Tuesday night?

The 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria, marked the first time Shiffrin went to a major event leading the World Cup slalom standings. That made her the favorite to win a gold medal at her first world championships and she did — at age 17.

She went to the 2015 world championships heavily favored to defend her world title and bearing the added pressure of being an Olympic champion competing at Beaver Creek, only four miles from her EagleVail home. She claimed the gold medal again.

She went to the 2017 world championships heavily favored again in slalom but also seen as a contender for a giant slalom medal because of her improvement in that discipline. She won the gold in slalom and took silver in GS.

This season she won five consecutive slalom races after finishing second in the season-opening slalom. Then in her final slalom before the Olympics she failed to finish the second run, but she was leading at the time. Thirty of her 41 World Cup victories have come in slalom, and she will clearly be the favorite Tuesday night (Denver time).

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Other women to watch:

Petra Vlhova, Slovakia: Beat Shiffrin in the season-opening slalom in November by 0.1 of a second and is second in the slalom standings. She won the most recent slalom on Jan. 28 when Shiffrin DNFd.

Frida Hansdotter, Sweden: Hansdotter has been a top-four slalom skier since 2013, and she won the World Cup slalom title in 2016. That’s the only year since 2013 that Shiffrin didn’t win it, although there was reason Shiffrin didn’t win it: She missed two months of racing that season because of a bruised knee.

Format: There are two runs (6:15 p.m., 9:45 p.m.) in slalom, and the favorites will be among the first to race in the first run. Then the top 30 from the first run will start in reverse order in the second run. If Shiffrin posts the fastest first-run time, for example, she will start 30th in the second run.

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The Post's ski and Olympics writer, Meyer covered his 12th Games last summer in Rio de Janeiro. He has covered five World Alpine Ski Championships and more than 100 World Cup ski events. He is a member of the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Colorado Running Hall of Fame. He regularly covers running and the Colorado Rapids.

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